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Zusammenfassung

Die Mutter war Alfreds Universum, nachdem er mit der Schule begonnen hatte. Sie wachte nachts bei ihm und war seine einzige Gesellschaft. Er beschreibt die Situation auf englisch in einem 1851 im Alter von achtzehn Jahren verfaßten Gedicht:

My cradle looked a death-bed, and for years

a mother watched with ever anxious care,

so little chance, to save the flickering light,

my scarce could master strength to drain the breast,

and the convulsions followed, till I gasped

upon the brink of nothingness — my frame

a school for agony with death for goal.

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Fant, K. (1995). 5. In: Alfred Nobel. Lebensgeschichten aus der Wissenschaft. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6368-1_5

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